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What do successful people have in common? If you study people that have navigated the ever-changing world we live in and became successful in business and life, you will see them all share similar characteristics. Develop these six traits and success will follow you.

Vision

Vision is a mental picture of what the future will or could be like. It is the foundation for the changes you will make and actions you will take to support your idea of the future. With the correct vision, you are willing to go to extreme measures to see that vision through. Your vision for your life, your career or your business should inspire you yet be simple to understand. For some people, this is a statement. For others, it is a pictorial collection of what they want out of life and serves as a visual reminder of their goal. In either case, carrying that vision every day moves us toward creating the future we want and then to the future we must have.

Attitude

It isn’t very often that we get anything more than we expect. Your vision has you expecting to obtain great success. Don’t let the wrong attitude set you back. What you project outwards in your personal and professional life is what you will get back. What you think your career will be is likely what it will be. You will not have the motivation needed to succeed in life if you are fighting yourself. Don’t focus on what you haven’t done; focus on what you will do to achieve your dreams. Successful people have a positive attitude and stay positive in all circumstances.

Planning and Goals

Having a plan and establishing goals will point you in the right direction to start achieving your dreams. It is your map that will guide you to your final destination. Planning starts the process of building commitment to achieving your goals. The vision may be there, but without a systematic plan with measurable goals in place, it will remain just that – a vision.

Taking Action

The best-laid plans means nothing without action. Your actions will determine how people see you and how successful you will be, not your words. Leadership is an action not a position. Successful people are leaders of their future and take action each day to move forward. Make up your mind to move forward and turn your vision into a reality.

Continued Learning

Starting a career or business is the beginning of your learning process. Anyone who achieves outstanding results and lives a full life without regret became committed to continued learning and development. That person will read more, practice more and do more throughout their life. In all professions – from doctors to teachers to corporate executive – the top performers will commit to continued education that goes beyond the minimum requirements to keep professional certifications current or to please a boss.

Persistence

Persistence means you have the discipline to stay on track for obtaining your dreams regardless of what obstacles come your way. Persistence is essential to achieve the life you deserve and keeps you on track when others around you don’t provide positive reinforcement. Below is a quote that sums up an important component of persistence.

“The one who once most wisely said, ‘Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.’ Might well have added this to it, ‘Be sure you are wrong before you quit.”

Creating a great life and business takes time – you should plan on it taking lots of time. Getting there will take persistence. There will be setbacks, but does that mean you stop chasing your dreams? If your dreams are your passion, then you won’t give up easily and you will reach that goal.

Success leaves clues. Be sure you are working on fully developing these time-tested characteristics each day!

Writing unique weekly blogs is not always an easy task. You need a compelling topic with enough content to be meaningful to your audience. Recapping the United Real Estate convention held in Austin last week is difficult – it was not just a conference, but an event built around the idea that we are all different, but have the same growth needs. We can all find information online and through education courses. What we can’t find online is a human connection. If you miss an event like our convention, you miss out on the stories that move us as people to be more and do more.

The convention was designed to have the energy of a rock concert, with the comradery of family alongside you to ensure that you not only have fun, but are open to learning. Most real estate brands speak about expertise in selling some definition of lifestyle real estate. At United Real Estate, we have agents that excel and specialize in selling all types of properties and represent all segments of buyers. Our guiding values ensure that we have the interest of our clients at the forefront, to make certain we are the trusted advisors they desire and need to have on their side.

However, as a company we want to do more than that. We want to help all agents stop viewing real estate as a job and start thinking of the lifestyle they can create for their family by focusing on being an entrepreneur instead. Real estate agents, on average, are already working over 40 hours a week. Those hours should be viewed as owning and building your own business, not having a job! As an entrepreneur, your top task is to grow your revenue. In real estate, this means generating and following up with potential new clients.

While there is not a singular way to be successful in real estate, there is only one way to ensure success – that is to start taking action. United Real Estate and our partners can teach you to generate leads and be a market expert in real estate. You have to believe you deserve a new level of success and invest in yourself and your business!

If you missed the convention this year, you not only missed the valuable opportunity of connecting with peers, but also great educational opportunities. To quote Mel Robbins, a leading expert on personal development and one of our convention presenters this year – “There’s only one thing standing between you and the life you have always wanted – and that’s YOU.”

Finding and realizing your potential in operating your own business and growing your income is difficult. It is not just the actual tasks of building the business that are difficult, it is psychologically hard to start each day ready to take on the challenge knowing you are responsible for your success with a lot of uncertainty ahead of you. The reality is, you need to not only know the technical aspects of your business and how you differ from your competition, but you are going to have to find the internal drive to make it past the odds that are stacked against you in building a break-out business.

Role models and gurus have always been an important part of our society. Presently, we have access to many different types of media, examples of personal fame and potential role models to take advice from. These influences affect how we dress, how we think and many times what goals we establish. Access to information is great, but make sure you are getting the right daily information to grow your business.

Here are four people to follow that will give you not only great business advice, but also will help you overcome the insecurities that are part of being an entrepreneur.

Mel Robbins – A best-selling author and the most booked female corporate event speaker in the United States. She is not only a successful entrepreneur herself, but also has the ability to communicate the real reason you don’t do the things you need to do to build your business – you don’t feel like it. She has a fix for that and it revolves around the science of how your brain functions. Read her latest book The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage to help you overcome your fears and build the business you deserve. www.melrobbins.com

Gary Vaynerchuk – The quintessential immigrant success story of hard work and proof the opportunity still exists in America for anyone to succeed. He’s a multiple bestselling author and founder of VaynerMedia, a social media focused digital agency. Everyone needs an online presence for their business and Gary is the go to source for the likes of General Electric and also Millennial driven start-up tech companies. Gary produces content daily that any entrepreneur can take advantage of and implement on an ongoing basis. Read his book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World.www.garyvaynerchuk.com

Jeb Blount – Often businesses fail because they think customers will come to them. If it were that easy everyone would start their own business. If you’re going to be a successful entrepreneur you are going to have to learn how to sell. Jeb delivers the straight talk every entrepreneur needs to hear about the realities of growing your business through prospecting and the entire selling process. Read his book Fanatical Prospecting which gives entrepreneurs a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. www.salesgravy.com

Tony Robbins – He is not only one of the greatest public speakers of all time, but also the individual who has helped and guided more successful entrepreneurs than anyone else. Those that deem him a motivational guru, miss his message. He’s a strategist for all aspects of your life. He doesn’t teach people to just solve their problems. Rather he is the person who can help you identify what caused the problem in the first place. He demonstrated his in-depth knowledge of why people get derailed at one of the first and most viewed Ted talks of all time, entitled“Why We Do the Things We Do” View it online and follow his daily posts for the tips you need to stay on course for your business goals. www.tonyrobbins.com